Questioning according to Traditionnal Chiness Medecine: the ten questions's song

The question session is one of the four steps of the clinical examination p ractised in traditional chinese medecine along with the examination, the au scultation and the palpation. Highly codified, the question session is also called <<the song of 10 quest ions>>. Each step is developed using the main principles of traditional chi nese medecine (tem) : energy, yin and yang, qi, blood (xue) and the organic fluids, the 5 movements, the 6 perverted energies, the 7 feelings etc. This examination presents an original approach to the animal in that what i s being looked for is what it is rather than what is wrong with it.. we hop e that this article, necesserity exhaustive, will hepl the rigorous practit ioner in providing a wider approach to the animal and answers to some of hi s reflections.